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In: Poll: sources of philosophical information  — view comment
(emphasis is mine) :up:
July 01, 2020 at 18:53
In: Postmodern Philosophy : what is it good for?  — view comment
:mask: :point: :rofl:
July 01, 2020 at 17:34
In: What Would the Framework of a Materialistic Explanation of Consciousness Even Look Like?  — view comment
:up:
July 01, 2020 at 17:25
In: Postmodern Philosophy : what is it good for?  — view comment
Ok. Much appreciate this correction, SLX. :cool:
July 01, 2020 at 13:48
In: What Would the Framework of a Materialistic Explanation of Consciousness Even Look Like?  — view comment
Recommended in the link provided (re: Thomas Metzinger, Patricia Churchland, Guilio Tononi, et al). @"Wayfarer" :roll:
July 01, 2020 at 13:38
In: Could aliens look exactly like us not by chance but necessity?  — view comment
:up:
July 01, 2020 at 09:51
In: What Would the Framework of a Materialistic Explanation of Consciousness Even Look Like?  — view comment
This question is red herring because it conflates materialism-as-epistemology (i.e. scientific paradigm) with materialism-as-ontology (i.e. metaphysic...
July 01, 2020 at 09:24
In: Postmodern Philosophy : what is it good for?  — view comment
Yes. Yes.
July 01, 2020 at 07:47
In: Postmodern Philosophy : what is it good for?  — view comment
:ok: I've already taken my bite of the apple ...
July 01, 2020 at 03:22
In: Postmodern Philosophy : what is it good for?  — view comment
:smirk:
July 01, 2020 at 01:28
In: Poll: sources of philosophical information  — view comment
Other: books + discussions + daily walks/hikes.
June 30, 2020 at 16:29
In: Architectonics: systemic philosophical principles  — view comment
Yeah - the functioning, operation, usage is shown, not said, as Witty might say; and the "architectonic" - talking, that is, discursively reasoning, "...
June 30, 2020 at 16:12
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Why'd you change what the DOD article means by leaving out the words in bold, NOS? :shade: -???????! https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congr...
June 30, 2020 at 15:51
In: Martin Heidegger  — view comment
So I've learned through the years and from other Classicists.
June 30, 2020 at 15:25
In: If objective truth matters  — view comment
Sly. :smirk:
June 30, 2020 at 11:28
In: Postmodern Philosophy : what is it good for?  — view comment
:up: :fire:
June 30, 2020 at 11:26
In: Martin Heidegger  — view comment
:clap: I commend your patience. My objections to H's wanton and sloppy heideggerizations of philosophical texts, modern & classical (e.g. Kant, Hegel,...
June 30, 2020 at 10:57
In: What are your positions on the arguments for God?  — view comment
No. At 14-15 I began thinking for myself about what I was told to believe ... which lead me at 16 to cease believing just because they - tradition - t...
June 29, 2020 at 14:59
In: Most Fundamental Branch of Philosophy  — view comment
Ethics. Metaphysics is presupposed by ethics rather than ethics derived from metaphysics. Or should be; I read them in reverse, I guess, like how I re...
June 29, 2020 at 13:51
In: Architectonics: systemic philosophical principles  — view comment
For me it's agency; which I understand as capabilities - affordances - ('the commons' e.g. grammars, adaptive habits, eusocial institutions, etc) for ...
June 29, 2020 at 09:57
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
May be wishful thinking on my part, and you're right she is the real deal.
June 29, 2020 at 09:12
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
Update: Rep. Karen Bass, D-CA
June 29, 2020 at 03:41
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
The bolded qualify FDT aka "Individual-1" as a traitor vis-à-vis knowing about and ignoring Russian bounties on US troops in Afghanistan.
June 29, 2020 at 00:57
In: Without Prejudice. Why does anything matter?  — view comment
I don't know. It's a plausible alternative to cryonics; animal trials looks promising so far. I'm 50something so it'd please me greatly if this was a ...
June 28, 2020 at 22:56
In: Postmodern Philosophy : what is it good for?  — view comment
My 2 bits - insofar as Modern philosophy (Modo) proposes° solutions to the 'criterion' & 'demarcation' problems which, on pain of vicious circularity,...
June 28, 2020 at 22:48
In: Without Prejudice. Why does anything matter?  — view comment
It seems so. (See here)
June 28, 2020 at 20:28
In: Martin Heidegger  — view comment
:up:
June 28, 2020 at 08:41
In: Why The Push For More Academically Correct Threads?  — view comment
:up:
June 28, 2020 at 05:43
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
:mask: True; but what's also true: Active duty US military care. US military veterans & retirees care. Families of US military personnel care. That'll...
June 27, 2020 at 13:27
In: Martin Heidegger  — view comment
I prefer Karl Jasper's provocative conception of "The Being" as encompassing (i.e. 'nondual transcendence' - from his lectures titled Existenzphilosop...
June 27, 2020 at 09:22
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
As reported here & elsewhere, months ago the M_oscow A_ss(et) G_overning A_merica was told that his "handler" Putin has been paying Afghan Taliban to ...
June 27, 2020 at 05:14
In: Bannings  — view comment
:up:
June 26, 2020 at 14:18
In: Martin Heidegger  — view comment
:clap: :lol:
June 26, 2020 at 14:13
In: Does Philosophy of Religion get a bad rep?  — view comment
:clap:
June 26, 2020 at 13:40
In: Why does entropy work backwards for living systems?  — view comment
:up: :up:
June 26, 2020 at 13:22
In: Dark Matter possibly preceded the Big Bang by ~3 billion years.  — view comment
:up: :up:
June 26, 2020 at 13:18
In: Systemic racism in the US: Why is it happening and what can be done?  — view comment
"... a Black Man with power." :worry: https://youtu.be/AJmD3Pi0SQo
June 24, 2020 at 23:30
In: Martin Heidegger  — view comment
... Ok.
June 24, 2020 at 23:18
In: Martin Heidegger  — view comment
Ja. Gelassenheit :point: 'Scheiße-sein'. update: A morning spent reading Beckett - e.g. long passages from his Trilogy (Molloy, ...) or plays in the r...
June 24, 2020 at 14:47
In: Martin Heidegger  — view comment
Exactly. For all his oompah oompah on "the question of the meaning of being" (or, according to Rorty, "myth of being"), Heidi's daseinanalysis is as a...
June 24, 2020 at 04:44
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
:up:
June 23, 2020 at 19:06
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
:up: :100: Either you don't know that you don't know (Dunning-Kruger effect) or you know you don't know and lack the integrity, or honesty, to admit i...
June 23, 2020 at 18:56
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
:up: :lol: What? I've not called you a name yet. Your OP is an embarrassment of fallacious & misinformed riches as others have pointed out before me. ...
June 23, 2020 at 15:26
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
So you don't know, Devans, or offer any sound inferences. Uh huh. I just wanted to clarify - expose - that your OP amounts to nothing but an argumentu...
June 23, 2020 at 11:55
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
What causes "the juggling"? And how does that - distinct from anything else - "cause ... particles to be emitted"? Yeah, like Earth "seems" flat and a...
June 23, 2020 at 11:10
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
:clap: :lol:
June 23, 2020 at 05:24
In: Martin Heidegger  — view comment
Elaborate please. Also: do you agree with H that "question of being" is "the question"? Why or why not?
June 23, 2020 at 01:36
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
Entropy is a stochastical description and not a causal relation or agent.
June 23, 2020 at 01:30
In: God Almost Certainly Exists  — view comment
What causes (e.g.) radioactive decay?
June 23, 2020 at 01:26
In: Can one provide a reason to live?  — view comment
So, for you, is "seeming" believing? Whatever. I "suffer" from cheerful pessimism (i.e. prepared for things to get worse and usually quite amused that...
June 22, 2020 at 11:29
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